The artillery has begun to prepare, the enthusiasm of the people has also been mobilized, and the next thing is the rectification of the army, the reason why Zhu Cijiong signaled the two major businesses under his command to donate money one after another, and it is one aspect to set an example for the people, and more importantly, he wants to carry out a comprehensive rectification of the Ming army, which requires a lot of silver.

Just as Zhu Cijiong was preparing to start the army rectification, a secret report came from Liaodong: Huang Taiji led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to the Mongolian steppe, and there were faint signs of gathering troops and horses in various Mongolian departments. Sun Chengzong suspected that Huang Taiji wanted to repeat his old tricks and sneak attack Jingshi!

Zhu Cijiong received the secret report, and scolded angrily: "Huang Taiji, can't Nitama stop for a while?" In this winter, what are you running around, your brain is in water! ”

Did Huang Taiji's brain get into the water? Of course not, he's got a good brain. The Ming Dynasty had spies in Liaodong and the Mongolian steppe, and Huang Taiji also had spies near Beizhili, and Zhu Cijiong was so crazy about propagating that he wanted to recover Liaodong, Huang Taiji would naturally receive the news. In fact, even if Zhu Cijiong didn't promote Huang Taiji, he knew that the Ming army would definitely come to attack Liaodong, with more troops than him and stronger weapons than him, so it would be strange if he didn't fight.

Huang Taiji is not the kind of reckless man who blindly does it, let alone the kind of soft egg who sits and waits to be beaten, Da Ming wants to clean him up with such fanfare, he naturally will not sit still. How do you give the little emperor a little color? Liaodong doesn't have to think about it, now it's freezing cold, and it's extremely inconvenient for the army to travel, even if you barely go out, what can you do, Sun Chengzong is hiding in the turtle shell and waiting, and he can't beat it when the weather is good, let alone the winter.

After thinking about it, he thought of a sneak attack on Jingshi, he did it once in the first two years, although he lost Guangning, but he also grabbed a lot of slaves and property, which was a tie with the Ming army. This time it was different, with the Great Belle Daishan leading an army of 100,000 to guard Haizhou, he didn't have to worry about the security of the rear at all, and now the only thing he had to think about was the problem of soldiers and horses.

After years of development, the population of the Jurchen tribes has increased a lot, but the total number is still less than two million, even if all the people are soldiers, the army that can be assembled is only 150,000 or 60,000, plus the total number of newly recruited Han Eight Banners is only about 200,000. 100,000 people in Daishan can't move, and more than 30,000 people in Mang Gurtai have already become dry bones in the mound, plus all parts of Liaodong have to leave some people to defend, and the most soldiers and horses he can mobilize are 50,000.

The last time he went to the sneak attack, he brought 100,000 troops, but this time only 50,000 was definitely not enough, he could only order the Mongolian troops to gather troops and horses. Originally, he had never allowed the Mongolian tribes to gather too many soldiers and horses, and at most let them gather one or two thousand at a time, just for fear that they would have different intentions, but now that they are all on this, he can't take care of so much, and directly ordered the Mongolian departments to gather 150,000 soldiers and horses and meet in the Chahar department!

Did he gather so many men and horses to think of a decisive battle with the Ming army? Of course not, there are more than 10 large and small cities in Zunhua to the capital, and everyone is guarding the city, what kind of battle is he fighting, going to attack the city? Looking for death! Muskets, artillery and mines and grenades, as long as 40,000 or 50,000 horses defend the city, he can make his 200,000 army helpless, the Ming Dynasty is now more than 50,000 horses, the little emperor is like a madman everywhere to recruit troops and horses, now the Ming army is at least more than one million, to attack their city, what is the difference with looking for death.

Huang Taiji actually wanted to disrupt the deployment of the Ming army and prepare for the decisive battle in Liaodong next year. He had already planned that if the Ming army gathered a large army to deploy defenses on the front line of Zunhua and Jizhou, he would not move and let the Ming army work in vain; If the Ming army only mobilized a small number of troops to defend, he would rush into Shuntianfu and loot it wantonly, and then leave, leaving the little emperor to suffer a loss; If the Ming army ignores him completely, then he will lead a large army to the capital to see if the little emperor is afraid.

Of course, Zhu Cijiong is not afraid of Huang Taiji, but he is just a little annoying, he is about to start rearming for war, and Huang Taiji suddenly gives him such a play, and he will directly disrupt his plan.

He was originally going to put the army in order before the year and then move it after the year, but now there is no way, if you don't mobilize the army for defense, Huang Taiji will definitely rush into Shuntian Mansion and plunder everywhere. He just swore that he was going to wave his army to clean up Huang Taiji, and people immediately rushed into the Gyeonggi key land to burn and loot, didn't this slap him in the face? He can't afford to lose this man!

This time, he didn't need Sun Cheng's religion, and directly ordered Cao Huachun to take out the map of the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty, spread it on the desk and look at it, and then issued an order:

"Passed the decree, so that Changping General You Shiwei led 30,000 troops to garrison Miyun, Huairou, and Shunyi, with 10,000 horses in each city;

ordered Hou Shilu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, to lead 30,000 troops to garrison Sanhe, Pinggu, and Tongzhou, with 10,000 horses in each city;

Wang Xueshu, the general soldier of Datong, led 40,000 troops to garrison Jizhou, Xianghe and Yutian, including 20,000 horses in Jizhou and 10,000 horses in Xianghe and Yutian. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but pause, these are the men and horses who were transferred according to Sun Chengzong's arrangement last time, this time Sun Chengzong was far away in Gaizhou, and the soldiers and horses in Jizhou Town and Shanhaiguan were almost all transferred to the first line of Sanchahe Fort and Gaizhou, and the remaining people and horses were less than 10,000, and it was good to be able to hold Shanhaiguan, as for the vicinity of Zunhua, additional soldiers and horses had to be transferred.

He pointed at Zunhua City with his finger, and then slowly looked to the southwest, and there was no need to look in the northeast, now that it was cold and snowy, he didn't even want to transfer the army over.

Well, half of the 200,000 Praetorian Guards in the capital can be transferred over, and 100,000 Praetorian Guards in the capital are enough, and now Wang Gongchang is frantically making artillery, 100,000 Praetorian Guards plus the artillery, and his Emperor Taiji is leading 500,000 troops over for nothing.

Well, the 30,000 defenders newly recruited by Beizhili are stationed in Daningdu, Baoding Prefecture, and they can be transferred to respond to the emergency.

Further south, it will be Henan, and there are only 30,000 defenders in Henan Province, and the defense of thieves is not enough, and there can be people transferred there. Further south is Nanzhili, where there are more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, but it is too far to work.

Then you can only go west, to the west is Shanxi, well, Shanxi Pingyang Mansion and Zezhou have 200,000 troops assembled by Lu Xiangsheng! To tune or not to tune?

He looked at Henan and then at Shanxi, his eyes flashed, and he said, Lu Xiangsheng must be transferred away, otherwise the thieves will hide in the mountains and dare not come out, how can they clean up those moths?

He looked at the map carefully, Pingyang Mansion must be guarded, the thieves there have been cleaned up, the moths have been swept away, and they can't be allowed to eat back grass, other places, hum, the officials of the state capitals, you should ask for more blessings, if there is no corruption, the thieves will not do anything to you, if you are corrupt, then don't blame me for being ruthless, you will bury those moths!

Thinking of this, Zhu Cijiong gritted his teeth and continued to order:

"Order the 30,000 defenders stationed near the command of Daning to go north to Jizhou, and garrison Yongping, Qian'an, and Luanzhou, with 10,000 horses in each city;

ordered the commander of the Beijing camp, Shi Kefa, to lead 100,000 new soldiers from the Beijing camp to garrison Zunhua City;

Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the five provinces, led 150,000 horses to escort the captive thieves to the outside of Zunhua City, and built a circle of outer cities along the original city wall of Zunhua City, thinking that it was a place for troops, at least 500,000 soldiers and horses should be stationed, and 50,000 soldiers and horses should be stationed in Pingyang Prefecture. ”

Cao Huachun brushed and wrote six holy decrees, handed them to Zhu Cijiong for inspection, and then stamped them one by one, and then bowed down and withdrew to arrange for someone to pass on the decree.

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When Lu Xiangsheng received the holy decree, his mood was complicated, and he also read the "Beijing News", and as a general of the army, he couldn't wait to wave his army to Liaodong to clean up Jiannu. However, he can't, although the main force of the thieves has escaped into the mountains, there are still hundreds of thousands of people, if they are allowed to escape, within the five provinces, except for the Tianxiong army under his command, no one can govern. As soon as he leaves, won't the thieves have to resurrect and develop again, so he can't go.

Now the emperor actually ordered him to guard Zunhua City with Shi Kefa, and specified that he should personally lead 150,000 soldiers and horses, and bring more than 100,000 prisoners. This means that you have to give up the five provinces, let the thieves run rampant, and go all out to deal with Jiannu! Is this necessary?

Of course, he won't and dare not ask the emperor this question, he is a cronie of the emperor, if he doesn't have the emperor's appreciation, he is still a prefect, how can there be the current governor of the five provinces, under one person, above tens of millions of people!

Therefore, as soon as he received the holy decree, although he was very puzzled and felt very sorry, he still did not hesitate to arrange to stay behind, gather a large army, and then rush to Zunhua with more than 100,000 prisoners.

When he arrived in Zunhua, it was already more than ten days later, and Shi Kefa had already arrived at this time, and he had also made some preliminary preparations, all kinds of materials for building the city wall were piled up into hills, and they were about to surround Zunhua City, and when the prisoners he escorted arrived, he could directly start building the wall.

As soon as Lu Xiangsheng arrived in Zunhua, Shi Kefa led a group of Beijing generals to greet him outside the city, and set up a banquet in the city to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Lu Xiangsheng and others.

If other people set up a banquet, Lu Xiangsheng probably wouldn't pay attention to it, but Shi Kefa's banquet was different, just one word, go.

Actually, Shi Kefa doesn't have the habit of inviting people to dinner, it's just that the relationship between the two is too good, and they haven't seen each other for a long time, he just wants to take the opportunity to eat and talk more to Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng saw that Shi Kefa was not extravagant and wasteful, nor did he invite irrelevant people to flatter, so he invited a group of generals, purely to chat and reminisce, naturally he was even more happy, and even drank three glasses of water and wine rarely. You must know that although he has a good amount of alcohol, he has not drunk a drop of alcohol for nearly a year since he led the troops to fight, which shows how happy he is today.

Shi Kefa wanted to pay more respect, but Lu Xiangsheng smiled and blocked the way: "Xianzhi, stop here, you and I are both leading generals, and Jiannu is about to move again, and it is easy to make mistakes if you drink too much." ”

Shi Kefa laughed and said: "Hahahaha, Brother Jiandou rest assured, according to the report from the spies, the coalition forces of Jiannu and the Mongolian tribes are still motionless in Chahar, and they will not be able to catch up with Zunhua in three or five days." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said strangely: "Oh, really? ”

Shi Kefa smiled: "Do I dare to joke about this?" Jiannu is afraid that he will not dare to come, this time is different from the past, since there are new muskets and artillery, Jiannu's cavalry is no longer afraid, if they dare to come, just Zunhua you and me, the 250,000 army can fight them all over the ground looking for teeth. ”

The new-style flintlock pistol against the cavalry Lu Xiangsheng was the most experienced, and he couldn't help but nod when he heard the words: "The era of cavalry has indeed passed, since the Jiannu don't dare to come, can this city be repaired?" ”

Shi Kefa said mysteriously: "Repair, why don't you repair, the emperor once mentioned that in the future, Zunhua will be changed into a large barracks, at least a large barracks with millions of soldiers, and the name will be Daming Beida Camp!" ”

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he couldn't help but stand up violently, and asked excitedly, "Millions?" Do you mean Mo Nan and Mo Bei? ”

Shi Kefa nodded firmly and said: "Yes, the whole world is not the king's land, and when the time comes, Emperor Qin, Han Wu, Tang Sect and Song Ancestor will probably be ranked behind my Emperor Chongzheng of the Ming Dynasty." ”

Lu Xiangsheng's eyes lit up, and he recited excitedly: "Angry hair rushes to the crown, leaning on the railing, Xiaoxiao rain rests." Raise your eyes, look up to the sky and roar, and be fierce...... Drive a long car and step through the lack of Helan Mountain. Zhuang is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Xiongnu blood. To start from the beginning, clean up the old rivers and mountains, and face the sky. ”

After reciting, he took the initiative to touch the cup with Shi Kefa, raised his head and drank it all.

Shi Kefa also recited excitedly: "Okay, stay from the beginning, clean up the old rivers and mountains, and face the sky." ”

After reciting, he also raised his head and drank it all.